Daily Summary, 3 November

Daily Summary, November 3

Cryptomarkets and Bitcoin
* Bitcoin closed October with negative dynamics for the first time since 2018. The last time such a situation occurred, it was followed by a correction of 36% in November.
* Wall Street veteran Jordi Visser believes that Bitcoin is not growing because it is going through the stage of its “IPO.”
* The trading volume on DEX exchanges in October reached a record $613 billion, and the share of decentralized platforms grew to 20%.
* Ripple is launching a brokerage company for trading cryptocurrency on the spot in the US market.

Regulation
* The European Union is considering the possibility of introducing oversight for stock and cryptocurrency exchanges modeled after the American SEC.
* Romania added the Polymarket platform to its blacklist, calling it an unlicensed gaming platform operating outside of state oversight.
* The Zerohash platform receives a MiCA license against the backdrop of rumors about a possible acquisition by Mastercard for $2 billion.

Incidents and Security
* The DeFi protocol Balancer was hacked, as a result of which attackers stole wrapped versions of ETH worth $116 million.
* Another user lost 1,256,000 USDT by signing a phishing transaction.
* Faruk Fatih Ozer, the founder of the bankrupt Turkish cryptocurrency exchange Thodex, was found dead in prison.

Business and Finance
* The Moscow Exchange acquired office space in “Moscow-City.”
* The monthly volume of operations with stablecoins on the Ethereum network in October reached a record level of $2.8 trillion.
* OpenAI signed an agreement with Amazon for $38 billion, gaining access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia computational powers.

Other Events
* Donald Trump, in a new interview, spoke about cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, and the technological leadership of the USA.
* In the popular animated series “South Park,” a new episode was released, dedicated to the launch of its own shitcoin.
* According to the President of Kyrgyzstan, CZ initiated the creation of a private bank for working with digital assets – Bereket Bank. Later